Sept. 12, 2004 - Jaguars 13, Bills 10

It certainly didn’t take long for new head coach Mike Mularkey to get a taste of some the madness and frustration that had engulfed the Buffalo Bills at the start of their 17-year playoff drought.

Opening day at the stadium and Drew Bledsoe had everything set in his mind once the Bills finished off the Jaguars. “I really thought long and hard about how gratifying it was going to be to walk in here and hand Mike Mularkey a game ball after this first game at home,” Bledsoe said.

Well, that was going to have to wait because the Bills suffered an absolutely galling 13-10 loss to Jacksonville when Byron Leftwich completed a seven-yard touchdown pass to Ernest Wilford on the final play of the game.

There have obviously been so many horrendous losses

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